Spinoff...What do you call a pacifier?

[aprilchem]

We call them pacifiers. When my kids were babies the recommendation was to allow pacifiers for the first four months to help prevent SIDS (this was 2005, 2007, 2009). I don't think that recommendation exists anymore, does it?

Either way, we tried to get all three of them to take a pacifier for that reason but none ever did. So we never used one for any of them.

 

[Liberty Belle]

My dd didn't use one but I refer to it as a pacifier. I get the use of binky - like Kleenex instead of tissue.

I hate all the word abbreviations though, like paci. I just feel that it contributes to the laziness I see so much around me, like waiting for a parking spot instead of parking 3 spots further away. Stop using paci, brekkie, ressie, etc.

lol weird. I don't think it's done out of laziness, but out of familiarity/tenderness/fun.

 

[Riles_and_Gabe]

We started off calling it a pacifier but at some point with my youngest we started to refer to it as a butterfly. I think he started calling it that and the name just stuck. I think the Nuk pacifier kind of looks like a butterfly.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Just pacifier. No need for a cutesy name--then again only one of my kids took one and only for about a month; maybe we would have evolved to a nickname if we had been talking about them more often.

 

[Christine]

I'm not one to baby talk or nick-name so I just called it a pacifier. My oldest had no interest in one and my youngest loved it like nothing else. So, I would call it a pacifier. At first, of course, he couldn't say it, so he would only ask where his "fire" was. Then that evolved into "pat-a-pire" and finally pacifier. He was close to 2 years old when we got rid of it.

 

[Wendy31]

My sister was so attached to her pacifier that, even though I was just 3 1/2 years older than she, I still remember the drama when my parents tried to get her to stop using one. Anyway, the pacifier then was a "binky, & it's how my parents always referred to one &, for them, still it's either a pacifier or a "binky".

Our DD did not use one, but our older son did use one for a while. And, in our house it became known as a "faw-fee," & it just kinda stuck. Even though our younger DS did not use one, whenever we refer to a pacifier, it's a "faw-fee".

Pajamas also are "jaw-mers" in our house thanks to our older DS.

 

[Clifton Tesh]

The mute button...

Because that's what it was used as

 

[Disney Doll]

I call it a pacifier. But I call it whatever the child is used to calling it if I'm babysitting.